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Guest Post from OurPCB Do you know what the PCB circuit boards made of are? PCB vs PCBA-What is the differences? Have you ever opened up your iPhone to see what’s inside? You would find only a few things, from the digitiser, battery to soldering and of course, the PCB. …

Sponsored Post by WellPCB In this guide, we will introduce you to a supplier of cheap PCB prototype. We will discuss what to consider when purchasing from them. I hope that you will be able to answer all your concerns and concerns in this article. Buckle up. A lot of …

A Raspberry Pi HAT is a circuit board placed on top of a Raspberry Pi in order additional features to the single-board computer. There are a lot of Raspberry Pi Hat available for purchase. This post will show you how to build your own Hat.

The emergence of the ESP8266 WiFi module has allowed makers and enthusiasts to create Internet-enabled projects at a minimal cost. Moreover, the popularity of the module also gave rise to commercial boards like the NodeMCU, WeMos D1, Adafruit’s Huzzah. Sparkfun’s ESP8266 Thing and many others. Practicality would make you just …

Vias are very common when designing PCBs. I myself have used PCB via even before fully understanding them. In this article, I will be sharing the different types of vias and how they are actually used in PCB design.

In the past, I used to build project prototypes through breadboards and perfboards. However, the emergence of affordable PCB manufactures have allowed me to go away from my old ways of prototyping. In this article, I will share how I created the PCB board for my SIMPic development board through …

I always believed that the Arduino is a development board and is its microcontroller, the ATMega328 is the one meant to be featured in actual embedded systems projects.  Nevertheless, no one can deny the advantages of boards like these as they make prototyping and debugging much easier. In this post, …

As a lifelong PIC fan, I was super thrilled when Microchip sent me a free unit of their Curiosity HPC development board. I’ve been working on PICs for years by just mounting them on breadboards and using PICKit to flash programs. This takes time and so when I’m faced with …

Last time I featured DFRobot’s Bluno M0, an Arduino-compatible board with embedded Bluetooth chip. Now, I will write about the Bluno M3, an STM32-powered board that strikingly looks similar to the M0. Is it the same board or does it offer more?

I2C, or Inter-integrated Circuit, is a communications protocol common in microcontroller-based systems, particularly for interfacing with sensors, memory devices and liquid crystal displays. Similar to SPI, it’s a synchronous protocol because it uses a clock line. The I2C protocol, however, uses less pins and is a much more robust standard.